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Jan. 13, 2014

Legal Docket, the “valley-girl” dialect, Dollars and Sense

Today’s news and legal-affairs correspondent Mary Reichard talks about marriage confusion in Utah, plus: a report on a possible new American-English dialect, Dollars and Sense with Warren Cole Smith, and more

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Monday news

Nuclear deal: Iran has agreed to start eliminating some of its enriched uranium and to not use any new centrifuges, which is necessary in enriching the uranium. In return, the west will start easing sanctions.

Poverty: President Obama is now tackling the issue of poverty. From the White House, the president announced what he calls Promise Zones, specific poverty-plagued areas of the country targeted for federal dollars and programs to help the poor.

Traffic jam: On ABC This Week, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s handling of his unfolding scandal has stood in stark contrast to the president’s handling of numerous scandals.

Valley-girl speak: Now an American-English dialect?

Michael Cochrane reports on recent research on “uptalk”—a speech pattern that uses rising inflections at the end of statements, not just at the end of questions. Read a summary of a paper on uptalk presented at last month’s meeting the Acoustical Society of America.